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BOC, Boston Omaha Corporation
A property business, read on funds from operations and net asset value rather than reported earnings.
The business
What it sells, where the money comes from, the kind of company it is.
Next report By 11/13 · the 10-Q for the quarter ended late September · due within 45 days of period end · has filed ~44 days after · the wire records it on arrival
The business in brief
read the 10-K →What this business is and what moves its needle, from its own SEC filings.
- Situation
- Unprofitable. No sustained operating profit across the record; an earnings multiple has nothing to rest on. What the record does show is revenue, the gross-margin trajectory, and the burn against the cash on hand.
- What moves the needle
- Occupancy, rents, and the cost of debt. Read on funds from operations and net asset value, because GAAP depreciation distorts the earnings, and a property downturn meets a balance sheet built on leverage. On its own account, the filing leans hardest on pricing power & competition, set against the numbers in what the filing emphasizes, below.
- Is it a good business?
- Operating cash per share does not form a clean trend in the record. The quality and location of the properties, the lease terms and occupancy, and the cost of the debt are what the 10-K settles, and no single ratio captures them.
Every line is arithmetic on the company's filings, shown in full in the sections below.
The record
Ten years of arithmetic, read across the cycle.
Revenue up 2.4% year over year
figures computed from the filing's XBRL
The record, 2016–2025
realized figures from each filing · older years to the left| 2016’16 | 2017’17 | 2018’18 | 2019’19 | 2020’20 | 2021’21 | 2022’22 | 2023’23 | 2024’24 | 2025’25 | TTMTTMJun 2026 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Income statement | |||||||||||
| $4M | $9M | $20M | $41M | $46M | $57M | $81M | $96M | $108M | $114M | $102M | RevenueRevenue |
| ($3M) | ($6M) | ($9M) | ($1M) | ($49K) | $53M | $10M | ($7M) | ($1M) | ($12M) | ($13M) | Net incomeNet inc. |
| Cash flow & returns | |||||||||||
| $2M | $3M | $8M | $14M | $8M | $10M | $15M | $20M | — | — | — | Depreciation & amortizationD&A |
| ($1M) | ($3M) | $38K | $10M | $5M | $8M | ($5M) | $16M | $21M | $18M | $20M | Cash from operationsOp. cash |
| ($24M) | ($111M) | ($165M) | ($61M) | ($169M) | ($46M) | $88M | ($64M) | $28M | ($14M) | — | Investing cash flowInv. cash |
| $42M | $91M | $176M | $49M | $203M | $65M | ($110M) | $33M | ($48M) | $1M | — | Financing cash flowFin. cash |
| $16M | ($23M) | $11M | ($2M) | $39M | $27M | ($27M) | ($15M) | $2M | $6M | — | Change in cashΔ cash |
| Balance sheet | |||||||||||
| $66M | $153M | $332M | $437M | $641M | $807M | $688M | $768M | $728M | $713M | $683M | Total assetsAssets |
| — | — | — | $18M | $23M | $30M | $28M | $27M | $40M | $49M | $48M | Total debtDebt |
| — | — | — | ($5M) | ($29M) | ($47M) | ($3M) | ($19M) | ($34M) | ($8M) | $29M | Net debt / (cash)Net debt |
| $8K | $8K | $2K | $303K | $842K | $956K | $1M | $1M | $2M | $2M | $2M | Interest expenseInt. exp. |
| -402.5× | -820.5× | -6794.6× | -41.0× | -5.9× | -24.9× | -4.3× | -7.7× | -5.3× | -1.7× | -1.5× | Interest coverageInt. cov. |
| $3M | $5M | $16M | $90M | $114M | $166M | $158M | $152M | $166M | $177M | — | Total liabilitiesTotal liab. |
| — | $1M | $1M | $2M | $145M | $144M | $16M | $16M | — | — | — | Redeemable interestsRedeemable |
| — | — | — | — | — | $0 | $7M | $63M | $30M | $20M | — | Noncontrolling interestsNCI |
| $62M | $147M | $315M | $345M | $382M | $496M | $507M | $538M | $533M | $516M | $502M | Shareholders’ equityEquity |
| Per share | |||||||||||
| 6.0M | 10.8M | 19.9M | 22.8M | 25.7M | 29.0M | 29.8M | 31.1M | 31.5M | 31.4M | 30.6M | Shares out (diluted)Shares |
| $10.29 | $13.60 | $15.81 | $15.16 | $14.86 | $17.09 | $17.02 | $17.31 | $16.92 | $16.43 | $16.39 | Book value / shareBVPS |
The diluted share count moved ×1.79 into 2017 — shares issued, not a split the totals corroborate — and the per-share figures carry the counts as filed.
The diluted share count moved ×1.84 into 2018 — shares issued, not a split the totals corroborate — and the per-share figures carry the counts as filed.
| 9-yr | 5-yr | |
|---|---|---|
| Revenue / share | +21.4%/yr | +15.4%/yr |
| Capital spending / share | +25.2%/yr | +21.6%/yr |
| Book value / share | +5.3%/yr | +2.0%/yr |
Quality & stewardship
Returns, the balance sheet, capital allocation, and pay.
Owner’s Scorecard
Is it a good business?
- What an owner could take out ($10M) to $18MA range, because the filings do not split maintenance from expansionBetween cash from operations less all capital spending $18M − $28M = ($10M), and cash from operations $18M
What this means
Owner earnings is what a business produces in cash after the spending needed to keep it competitive. For a property trust that spending cannot be read: the filings mix the money that replaces a roof with the money that buys a building, and management decides which is which. Rather than model the split and publish a single figure, the two ends are shown. The upper end is operating cash, which no owner could exceed. The lower end deducts every dollar of capital spending, which is too harsh, since a trust that is growing is charged for buildings it is adding. A trust whose distribution sits near the lower end is paying it out of the properties; one whose distribution exceeds the upper end is paying it from somewhere else.
- Not enough data
What this means
Operating cash flow or the property cost wasn't found in the filing data.
- Not enough data
What this means
No dividends are tagged in the structured data within the record's window — either none were paid, or the filer reports them under a variant tag the pipeline does not yet read. The financing section of the 10-K settles which.
- Withheld — not in the filings' structured data
What this means
Funds from operations is defined by the industry's trade association rather than by accounting rules, and no REIT tags it in the structured data behind this site. Rebuilding it from the standard tags misses the figure these companies report by as much as half, because the gains on property sales it must exclude sit behind each filer's own custom tags. Rather than publish an invented number under the industry's name, the record shows the cash the properties actually produced.
Is it sound?
- Not cleanly capturedIndustry peers: median 46%
What this means
This REIT tags its borrowings in a way the pipeline could not fully total, so we decline to show a leverage figure rather than a misleadingly low one. The debt schedule in the 10-K is where to read its true leverage.
- Not enough data
What this means
Operating income or interest is missing, or operating income sits far below net income (a triple-net REIT's lease income bypasses the operating line), so an EBITDA coverage would mislead — read it on net income against the interest bill, and on debt / assets, instead.
- Consolidated accounts only
What this means
These figures are the trust's consolidated accounts. Where a REIT owns buildings through joint ventures it does not control, its share of those properties — and of the debt against them — sits outside every line here, and the filings do not tag it in a form this pipeline can read. Read the equity-method and off-balance-sheet notes in the 10-K before concluding anything about total leverage.
All figures as filed; the source filing is linked above.
Current Position
as of the latest quarter, Jun 30, 2026Can the business pay what it owes this year, off the freshest balance sheet: the quality of the assets, the debt actually coming due, and what a low ratio means here.
- Cash & short-term investments$19M
- Receivables$5M
- Other current assets$101M
- Debt due within a year$2M
- Accounts payable$8M
- Other current liabilities$50M
From the company's latest filing.
Acquisitions & goodwill
from the balance sheet & the 10-year cash-flow recordGoodwill grows only when a company acquires and falls only when it concedes it overpaid. The size of that bet, the cash put into buying rather than building, and how much has already been written off.
None written down over the record; the goodwill is still carried at full cost. That is the deals holding their value on the books so far; whether they keep doing so is the test an owner watches, since the write-down, when it comes, is the admission the price was too high.
Beside that spending sits $1M of cumulative amortization of acquired intangibles charged against earnings since fiscal 2016 — the purchase price of past deals, expensed over time.
Goodwill, acquired intangibles and equity from the latest balance sheet; acquisition spend and amortization summed across the company's full tagged history, write-downs across the 10-year record, from the company's own filings.
Management, ownership & pay
read the proxy →From the proxy: how much of the business the people running it own, and how they are paid, beside what the business earned for its owners in the same years.
| Fiscal year | Chief executive | Pay, as filed | “Actually paid” | Owner earnings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Alex B. Rozek | $7.9M | $7.9M | ($2M) |
| 2022 | Adam K. Peterson | $612k | $612k | ($20M) |
| 2022 | Alex B. Rozek | $612k | $612k | ($20M) |
| 2023 | Adam K. Peterson | $669k | $669k | ($4M) |
| 2023 | Alex B. Rozek | $670k | $670k | ($4M) |
| 2024 | Adam K. Peterson | $670k | $670k | ($767K) |
| 2024 | Alex B. Rozek | $3.2M | $3.2M | ($767K) |
| 2025 | Adam K. Peterson | $671k | $671k | ($10M) |
Both pay figures are the company’s own, from the pay-versus-performance table its proxy statement files. “As filed” is the Summary Compensation Table total: salary, bonus, and equity awards at their value on the day of grant. “Actually paid” is the SEC’s prescribed recalculation, which re-marks those equity awards to what they became as they vested; it can swing far above or below the filed figure in either direction, and negative years occur. Owner earnings are the whole business's, from the record above, for the same fiscal years.
- Insider ownership23.5%
The stake all directors and executive officers hold together, per the 2026 proxy: skin in the game, the first thing Munger reads.
Peers, Real Estate Development & Services
The same industry, side by side on the REIT lens. Each column names the period it is read over; the group median at the foot is the line to read each figure against.
| Company | Revenuelatest FY, USD | Cash marginmedian over the record | Cash / assetsmedian over the record | Dividend / cashmedian over the record | Debt / assetsmedian over the record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BPYPMBrookfield Property Partners L.P. | $7.1B | 9% | 0.7% | 303% | 36% |
| CRESYCresud S.A.C.I.F. y A. | $611M | 24% | 4.3% | 17% | 56% |
| OPIOffice Properties Income Trust | $443M | 45% | 5.2% | 87% | 57% |
| VTMXVesta Real Estate Corporation, S.A.B. de C.V. | $283M | 67% | 3.8% | 49% | 29% |
| BOCBoston Omaha Corporation | $114M | 12% | 0.9% | — | — |
| DUOFangdd Network Group Ltd. | $53M | -17% | -7.8% | — | — |
| ARLAmerican Realty Investors Inc. | $50M | -26% | -1.9% | — | 26% |
| IRSIRSA Investments and Representations Inc. | as filed: ARS 468.5B | 36% | 6.0% | 15% | 60% |
| Group median | — | 18% | 2.4% | — | — |
The price
What a price has to assume.
What the price implies
reverse-DCFA reit / real estate isn't read on an owner-earnings DCF; its economics live on the balance sheet (book value, the return earned on it, and the cash the assets throw off).
Manual order: ← BNY its page in the Manual BOH →
Industry order: ← BNJ the Real Estate Development & Services chapter BPYPM →